tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24958650639263322602011-04-21T14:44:13.775-07:00SamJ35http://www.blogger.com/profile/07379004696727336435noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495865063926332260.post-20317680776837155642008-06-30T23:51:00.000-07:002008-07-05T02:53:26.706-07:00After 3 years of no fishing at all, I have decided to get back into the sport of angling. <div><br /></div><div>I went fishing yesterday, 30th June, with my dad to a nice group of lakes in Petworth, West Sussex. I had purchased my Rod License online the day before and since I had all my tackle from my past years, I was all ready to go. </div><div><br /></div><div>When we pitched up, we had a look around the lakes. We found the one at the far end to be a nice one, and chose a nice swim there. After rigging, we tested the depth of the water. It was very deep at our swim and there was a lot of wind, making it harder to see our floats. So, we moved down the lake slightly to a more covered and shallower swim. Once rigged, I used 2 red maggots as bait and tossed in the line. The lake supposedly was full of tench, only small tench at about 2 or 3 pounds, and lots of crucian carp. I never caught a tench before and my dad used to catch them all the time when he was a kid, but he had hardly seen any when him and I used to go. </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, after about 10 minutes of the line being in the water, I had a reoccurring nibble on the bait. I waited about 30 seconds and the suddenly the float was gone. I struck and had a little fight with this fish. I brought it to the surface and realized it was a tench! My first tench on my first time fishing in 3 years! I was pleased. He wasn't too big, I'd say about 1 pound and a half. </div><div><br /></div><div>After that my dad threw his line in and caught a few crucians with me catching them too. He then hooked himself a nice tench and between us we had caught about 4 carp and 2 tench. The swim then died. We had no bites for about 2 hours. It was in the middle of the afternoon about 1pm and we didn't hook a fish until 3pm. This is most probably because tench, and carp, don't like sunlight. The light was streaming down on the water and it obviously put them off a bit. </div><div><br /></div><div>When it reached about 3 or 4pm we were catching a lot and this continued until about 8. We packed up finishing with me catching the biggest tench of the day at about 2 and a half pounds. As I said they weren't massive, but it was good fishing. Not a silver fish in sight, which I quite enjoyed. Roach and Rudd are fun, but they do get highly annoying, especially if you want the bigger ones. </div><div><br /></div><div>We came home all sunburnt and very pleased anglers. I'm just looking forward to out next trip which should be sometime in the next couple of weeks!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2495865063926332260-2031768077683715564?l=sams-fishing.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SamJ35http://www.blogger.com/profile/07379004696727336435noreply@blogger.com0